Before I Met You

A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

1230 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10020

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Previously published in 2012 in Great Britain by Century Random House.

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Atria Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.

First Atria Paperback edition October 2013

and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or business@simonandschuster.com.

The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com.

Cover design by Laywan Kwan

Photograph of girl in green by Daniel Rodriguez/Getty Images

Photograph of girl in blue by Richard Jenkins

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Jewell, Lisa.

Before I met you : a novel / by Lisa Jewell. — First Atria Books trade paperback edition.

pages cm

1. Family secrets—Fiction. 2. Nineteen twenties—Fiction. 3. London (England)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6060.E95B44 2013

823'.914—dc23

2013004344

ISBN 978-1-4767-0294-0ISBN 978-1-4767-0295-7 (ebook)